Frank McGuinness and his theatre of paradox
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Frank McGuinness and his theatre of paradox
（Ulster editions and monographs, 12）
Colin Smythe, 2002
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Frank McGuinness and His Theatre of Paradox" is a critical study of one of the most important contemporary Irish dramatists. It offers an overview of McGuinness' drama from his early plays right up to the recent "Dolly West's Kitchen". The author has chosen to treat the plays thematically, rather than chronologically, which highlights the playwright's major preoccupations in the contexts of modern and contemporary Ireland. She positions McGuinness exactly as a representative of a dynamic creative intelligence fully alive to the various factors, undercurrents, issues, problems and tensions that are being lived through in present-day Irish society, North and South.
Table of Contents
- Folk memory as lethal cultural weapon - Protestant Ireland versus Catholic Ireland ("Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme" and "Carthaginians")
- visualizing McGuinness' verbal theatre - interpretations of Caravaggio's theatricality ("Innocence")
- "An unhappy marriage between Ireland and England" - a post-colonial gaze at Ireland's past ("Mary and Lizzie", "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" and "Mutabiltie")
- "The voices of the voiceless" - representation of Irish women ("The Factory Girls", "Baglady" and "The Hen House")
- families at war - McGuinness' bad comedy of manners ("The Bird Sanctuary" and "Dolly West's Kitchen")
- catalogue of the Tilling Archive of McGuinness material in the Library at the University of Ulster, Coleraine.
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